A well-known international manufacturer of Turbo systems has a manufacturing operation in Bradford where turbo shafts are manufactured using multiple machining operations carried out on different machines. Moving work in progress between operations and machines can be a real problem, especially if the parts cannot be simply and easily loaded onto transporters to move them between ops.
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And not a moment too soon, if the following exchange broadcast last Friday 13th June, on the Radio 4 ´Rare Earth´ program (link below, ~ 17 minutes...